2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high-places were not removed out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Assa was entire all his days.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

In Context

16And also concerning Ma'achah the mother of king Assa, he removed her from being queen, because she had made a scandalous image for the grove; and Assa cut down her scandalous image, and had it ground up, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

18And be brought the things which his father had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, into the house of God,—silver, and gold, and vessels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2But the people sacrificed still on the high-places; because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

1 Kings 11:4And it came to pass, at the time that Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not undivided with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

2 Kings 12:3(12:4) Only the high-places were not removed: the people as yet sacrificed and burnt incense on the high-places.

2 Chronicles 14:3(14:2) And he removed the altars of the strange [gods], and the high-places, and broke up the statues, and cut down the groves;

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walked in the way of his father Assa, and turned not aside from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:4And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high-places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 15:9-19

Asa Reforms His Kingdom. ( b. c. 940.) 8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord , that was before the porch of the Lord . 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they… Read the whole commentary →

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